Person

Rodway, Frederick Arthur (1880 - 1956)

Born
25 March 1880
Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Died
1 April 1956
Nowra, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation
Physician and Plant collector

Summary

Frederick Rodway was a physician whose practice was in Nowra, New South Wales. He was also a noted botanist who collected specimens in Western Australia and New South Wales. His collection of over 15,000 plants, which included some collected by his daughter Gwenda Davis, was donated to the National Herbarium of New South Wales in 1952. Some of Frederick's Western Australian collections are also present in the herbarium of Leonard Rodway, his father, now in the Tasmanian Herbarium.

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